To Find Out Whether Are Related to Sarah or Jim

  • Look at the Title in the Browser, it will either say Sarah's family or Jim's.

    To Find Out How We Are Related

  • Find your name in the Pedigree pages
  • Follow the red arrows , if necessary, until you find an ancestor with a red dot . (Do not follow the red dots back, use the first one).
  • You may have to go back and try following a different parent or grandparent,
  • Assuming that you find the red dot, write down all of the names of the people with your name on the bottom and each parent above the child until you reach the person with the red dot. Include their name -this is our common ancestor
  • Go to the my family home page and scroll down until you find the descendancy page section.
  • Click on the letter E (or the first letter of the common ancestor's surname). Click on it.
  • Find the person's name with the red dot and click on it.
  • Write down the names (going down) from that person with red dots take children only (spouses are indicated with a + sign and also have red dots).
  • Start with the first child of the person's name that you looked up and put it opposite to the child on your line.
  • Continue until you have reached Jim or me.
  • The first line below the common ancestor is the siblings
  • Each successive line are cousins with the number of lines from the siblings being the number of the cousins, eg the first line below the siblings are first cousins, the second line are second cousins etc.
  • If one list is longer than the other, when you end the shorter list you have determined the degree of cousins.
  • The number of people left on the longer list is the "removed"

    Click here for an example.

    If you can not find a red dot

  • Try following your spouse's family
  • I am not related to everyone in the database, there are some families of siblings were a sibling married a member of my family and you can trace back several generations   This is especially true of many Brauer or Levin/Lewin families.

    To find your second cousins

  • Find your great-grandparent(s) in the descendants chart,
  • Follow your grandparents brother or sister to their grandchildren.